Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 20: Broadcasting Fund
Broadcasting Fund Financial Statements 2011
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland Financial Statements 2011
1:20 pm
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
If there are exceptional situations where the information is not generally held or available, I would certainly like to know what those instances are. I would be obliged if Mr. Dunning could do that.
I am conscious of the time, a Chathaoirligh, but I have a couple of questions for Mr. O'Keeffe if I can continue. Annexe C refers to the profile of projects funded from 2006 to 2011. A couple of things jumped out at me, including funding by language. In television, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland is not doing as well as I would have anticipated on the Gaeilge front. Some 50% of the television programmes supported is in English, while 22% is bilingual and 28% is in Irish. When one goes across the radio spectrum it is really massively unbalanced, is it not? Only 10% of the radio programmes supported are in Irish. How does Mr. O'Keeffe account for that?
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